To help you appreciate the situation with which you are dealing I call your attention to the fact that under our present law. unimpaired by such serious breaches as this will be. we are receiving at least three times as many aliens as the quota numbers. The present quota is about 164.000 per year. but it does not apply to all classes nor all countries. nor to temporary visitors. While we are telling the country that we have reduced the immigration quotas to 2 per cent. based on the census of 1890. and that the quotas are about 164.000 plus. we are in fact receiving of all classes about 500.000. but these large numbers do not include deserting seamen. aliens who smuggled themselves into the country. and others whom this bill will favor. As indicating a part of this situation. I call your attention to the testimony of Assistant Secretary of Labor Robe Carl White. given January 12. 1926. as reported in Immigration Committee hearings. Sixtyninth Congress. first session. page 172:
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